I'm liking it more than the other call of dutys, but seriously? It's not like if you don't pre-order you will miss out on day one release. People are just too quick to part with their money. As much as I like it so far there are still immense amounts that haven't even been talked about yet.

The CoD fanbass are full on window lickers. Complain every year about how shit and annoying the game is, yet they go and *bleep*ing pre-order the next one without knowing *bleep* all about it.

this, and b) this is basically an open invitation to those money-grubbing sumbitches to get more profit by doing the same map pack/DLC practices they've been pulling off for years, and they might even make more bullshit moves this time around. Won't be a complete negative nancy yet but we'll see.

Sounds to me as well that a good portion of those gamers were just turned off my MW3... on that basis, I wouldn't blame them.

d) they're just gonna keep on making and churning out titles until those records are no more... or even further, until sales really start taking a dive. So ETA around Modern Warfare 6, maybe?

They will keep making titles until they see more than a 20% drop in sales. They will then tweak the formula which knowing the fan base will be enough to give the series another 5 years of record breaking sales.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - More preorders than Battlefield 3Battlefield 3 - Won over 50 awards whilst Modern Warfare 3 won none.Both - Considered the Worst Games Ever by Yahtzee from Zero Punctuation, not because of gameplay, but what they represent.

Probably going to end up the exact same way, the only difference is that Black Ops 2's competitor is Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier.